Nigeria’s Underneath-18 boys’ basketball crew, the Yongster D’Tigers, misplaced their opening fit to Egypt via 70-57 on Wednesday night time within the ongoing Afrobasket U18 festival in Pretoria, South Africa.
The younger Nigerians had taken the top, successful the primary quarter 17-14.
Egypt took the second one quarter and, due to this fact, led the fit with ratings 37-32 of their favour at halftime.
Nigeria’s Yongster Tigers driven crisp to let fall the space to 52-48 on the finish of the 3rd quarter and the toll in their dearth of left-overs took retain of them within the closing quarter.
The younger Tigers arrived in South Africa for the Afrobasketball festival Wednesday morning next the lengthy lengthen in Abuja as they had been denied visas via the South African Prime Fee.
With the intervention of the Overseas Affairs Ministry and the World Basketball Federation, the lads had been then granted visas.
This operate had drawn a number of reactions from involved Nigerians throughout social media.
The younger gamers ultimately left Abuja on Tuesday and joined the women early Wednesday in Pretoria the place they had been scheduled to play games in opposition to Egypt Wednesday night time.
The Nigerian women additionally misplaced their opening recreation to Egypt.
The lads will play games their later fit in opposition to Angola on Saturday, September 7, 2024.
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